Social Theory; Historic and Pre-Historic Polity Systems; Diplomacy; Collective Identities; Russian and Norwegian Foreign Policies
 

Global environmental governance; climate and energy policy; windpower and other renewables; environmental politics; certification and eco-labelling; international forest politics.

Global management of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture; Implementation of the FAO Plant Treaty; Farmers’ Rights; Politics of organic production.

Environmental politics, civil society and development aid in Post-Soviet states; Norwegian-Russian relations and the Barents cooperation; Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani-Armenian relations.

Overall responsibility for administrative and economic matters; Secretary for Board and Council.